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NORMAN PACE joins ROCKY HORROR SHOW UK TOUR in select venues in the role of Narrator

NORMAN
PACE TO JOIN STEVE PUNT AND CHARLIE CONDOU AS THEY SHARE THE ICONIC ROLE OF THE
NARRATOR IN UK NATIONAL PRODUCTION OF THE

LEGENDARY
MUSICAL EXTRAVAGANZA

Produced
by Howard Panter for Ambassador Theatre Group

Comedian
Norman Pace will be joining the cast of the smash hit musical Rocky Horror Show
next month. He will join fellow comedian
Steve Punt and Coronation Street star Charlie Condou to share the legendary
role of The Narrator on the UK tour which is currently smashing box office
records in venues from Brighton to Liverpool, Birmingham to Sunderland.

Following
critically acclaimed performances on the tour earlier this year, Steve Punt
will reprise the role in Cardiff, Sunderland, Southampton, Wimbledon, York,
Aylesbury, Nottingham, Richmond, Malvern and Stoke. In Bradford - back by
popular demand - following his hilarious performance in Manchester, Charlie
Condou will be slipping his suspenders back on for two performances on Friday
18th March.

Norman
Pace will make his Rocky Horror
Show debut in Torquay, and will then perform in Bradford,
Edinburgh, Belfast, Dartford, Wolverhampton, Sheffield, Woking, Leicester,
Watford, Bristol, Milton Keynes, Canterbury, Glasgow, Southend and Bournemouth. The unique show also stars Diana Vickers, Ben
Freeman and Liam Tamne.

Steve Punt has been
half of Punt and Dennis for many
years and has co-hosted The Now Show
on Radio 4 since its inception in 1998. Steve also presents the university quiz
The Third Degree and the
light-hearted investigative show Punt PI
for Radio 4. Steve’s TV writing and performing credits include Canned Carrott, The Mary Whitehouse Experience, Punt
and Dennis, Mock the Week and Horrible Histories. In 2011 Steve played
Eric Idle in BBC4's Holy Flying Circus.

Norman Pace, one half of comedy
duo Hale and Pace, has become an accomplished actor in his own right, with
guest lead roles in BBC’s Casualty
and ITV’s The Last Detective. He made his West End debut as ‘Amos Hart’ in Chicago in 1999 and has since gone on to
perform in the UK tours of Honk, A Slice Of Saturday Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Satin ‘N’ Steel, Breakfast
With Johnny Wilkinson, Donkeys Ears,
Our Man In Havana, Dry Rot, Charley’s Aunt, Annie Get
Your Gun andmost recently One Man Two Guvnors.

Charlie Condou is best known for playing
Marcus Dent in Coronation Street for
four years and his successful column ‘The Three of Us’ in The Guardian. Charlie’s other television credits include Me, You, and The Apocalypse, The Impressionists and Midsomer Murders. On the silver screen,
Charlie has starred in Good, Fred Claus and Charlotte Grey, while some of his theatre roles include Next Fall (Southwark Playhouse), Dying for It (The Almeida), The Changeling (Southwark Playhouse) and
Shopping and F***king (UK Tour).

Since
its first appearance at the Royal Court Theatre in June 1973, Richard O’Brien’s
The Rocky Horror Show has become the
world’s favourite Rock N’ Roll musical. It has been performed worldwide for
over 40 years in over 30 countries, selling out in Australia, Germany,
Switzerland, Japan and Austria, and has been translated into more than 20
languages. Director Christopher Luscombe created a stunning new production to
celebrate the 40th Anniversary, which famously combines
science-fiction, horror, comedy and music and encourages audience participation.
This critically acclaimed version of the classic show, which tells the story of
Brad and his fiancée Janet – two squeaky clean college kids who meet Dr
Frank’n’Furter by chance when their car breaks down outside his house – is back
by popular demand, embarking on a year-long national adventure.

This
musical extravaganza features all of its famous musical classics including
“Science Fiction/Double Feature”, “Dammit Janet” and of course, the timeless
floor-filler, “The Time-Warp”.

Many stars, including Russell Crowe,
Tim Curry, Jerry Springer and Meatloaf have appeared in The Rocky Horror Show
over the past four decades. Ready to thrill you with
fun and naughty moments, O’Brien’s Rocky
Horror Show is the boldest bash of them all. Be warned, this show has rude
parts!

What the press have said about
The Rocky Horror Show:

“Fresh, subversive, essential” –Daily Telegraph

“Panto for grown-ups –
colourful, in your face, relentlessly energetic and high on audience
participation” – The Times

“Hard to think of another musical
quite as unique as this.” – Mail on Sunday